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Patent GB-190510438-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Device for Facilitating the Sighting of Guns.
Inventor: BEAL FREDERICK JAMES
Filed: 1905-05-18
Granted: 1906-01-18
Abstract: 10,438. Beal, F. J. May 18. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Sights and sighting-accessories.-In order to enable a fine adjustment to be made, the inclined leaf G of a back-sight is raised by turning the milled head D of a fine screw mounted in the block A of a device preferably adopted for temporary attachment to the sight. The screw carries a nut C, moving between the guides B, B' and engaging by a projecting arm with the leaf G.
Patent GB-190510857-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Closure for Milk Bottles.
Inventor: BAGAR FRANZ
Filed: 1905-05-24
Granted: 1906-01-11
Abstract: 10,857. Bagar, F. May 24. Capsule closures.-In a closure for milk bottles in which an upturned rim of a metal or other disk or plate a is pressed into a groove d in the bottle neck, a tight joint is secured without the use of packing by folding the upper part a' of the rim of the plate over the upper edge or shoulder d<1> of the closing groove. Figs. 3 and 4 show two forms of closures.
Patent GB-190511862-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Galvanic Battery Plates.
Inventor: HUBBELL HARRY CROSS
Filed: 1905-06-06
Granted: 1905-10-19
Abstract: 11,862. Hubbell, H. C. June 6. Electrodes.- Cathode plates are made by depositing a layer of finelydivided silver 3, on both sides of a perforated support 1 of nickel or nickel-plated iron, or upon open wirework, the edges 6 being left free from deposit. The plates are then wrapped with a sheet 4 of asbestos paper or the like, and with a nickel or nickelplated iron gauze sheet 7, binding-strips 8 being crimped on to the edges to secure the coverings.
Patent GB-190512287-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Atmospheric or other Fluid-pressure Hammers.
Inventor: SHARPLES HERBERT
Filed: 1905-06-13
Granted: 1905-11-02
Abstract: 12,287. Sharples, H. June 13. Steam &c. hammers.-In a compound fluid - pressure hammer which automatically strikes a number of blows consecutively, the valve is connected to a piston working in a cylinder o the valve-chest, which cylinder is connected by a pipe to the low-pressure cylinder. The steam first acts on the piston O of the hammer head and then passes to the cylinder H, where it works expansively on the piston I. When the piston I passes the port g, steam enters the cylinder C and lifts the piston D and valve B, to put the cylinder H into communication with the atmosphere through the passages K, L, and admit steam to the hammer-head piston. When the piston I passes the port g, it acts by suction and lowers the piston D. The pipe connecting the top of the cylinder C with the atmosphere may be provided to help the descent of the piston D. The ordinary hand-lever may be arranged to be put in and out of gear with the valve. Or a cock may be placed on the chamber C below the piston and closed when working automatically.
Patent GB-190513679-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Aerials for the Transmission and Receipt of Electromagnetic Wave Energy.
Inventor: FESSENDEN REGINALD AUBREY
Filed: 1905-07-03
Granted: 1905-09-28
Abstract: 13,679. Fessenden, R. A. July 3. Wireless telegraphy; condensers.-An aerial for wireless telegraphy is constructed of a number of hollow cylindrical metallic sections which may be insulated from one another and provided with means for obtaining resonance. Methods of attaching and forming the guy ropes are described and the whole post is mounted on a single ball- and-socket joint and insulated from the ground. Fig. 3 illustrates the method of connecting the sections, when they are to be insulated. The sections 1 are riveted or bolted to the castings 5, 6, washers 8, 10 being employed for insulating purposes. A method of attaching a temporary or auxiliary guy is described ; the main guy ropes 30 are, however, attached, as in Fig. 8, by straps 29 passing round porcelain spools 24, which are themselves fastened to the post or aerial by supports 25 and straps 26. Fig. 9 shows in section one of these spools with its support 25. The support 25, tapering to each end, is encased by the porcelain tube 32, carrying the spool at its centre, the spool consisting of several overlapping shells cemented together. The method of securing sections of the guy ropes is shown in Fig. 15, a porcelain wheel 43 being mounted on a sleeve, carried by the arms of a fork 40, and the whole protected from the weather by the covering 45. The aerial is supported at its base on the ball-and-socket joint 46, 47, so as to have some freedom of movement, the insulation from the ground being provided by a number of cones 49 embedded in cement between pans 50. The method of regulating the strain on the guy ropes is shown in Fig. 20. Two dynamometers 51 are attached by the rings 53 to two transverse arms 52, and the turn-buckle 55 normally connecting these arms is loosened to throw all the strain on the dynamometer, and is adjusted to regulate this strain. The resonance of the aerial is obtained by connecting the sections when insulated by induction coils and inserting a condenser, such as that shown in Fig. 21, with two series of plates 58, 59 in a dielectric of compressed gas.
Patent GB-190518887-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Drill Chucks.
Inventor: OUBRIDGE WILLIAM ARTHUR
Filed: 1905-09-19
Granted: 1906-07-12
Abstract: 18,887. Oubridge, W. A. Sept. 19. Chucks for drills have jaws b, Figs. 1 and 2, pivoted at c in a body a and at d in a front plate e, bolted against a shouldered recess f at g. The gripping-surfaces n are eccentric to the pivots, and each jaw has one or more teeth i, engaging slots in a ring j, rotatable in the body as controlled by an external ring m, connected to the ring j at k and by a tension or compression spring o, which is confined in a slot in the body and which tends to retaiu the jaws in their acting positions. When very small drills are to be held, the jaws are grooved at q, Fig. 4, leaving ridges r so that the lines bounding the gripping-surfaces can intersect or pass behind the axial line of the chuck.
Patent GB-190519321-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Lanterns for Incandescent Gas Lighting.
Inventor: BRAY JOHN WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-09-25
Granted: 1905-11-02
Abstract: 19,321. Bray, J. W. Sept. 25. Street and like lamps; lighting gas.-The incandescent burner in a street lamp is ignited by a flash jet J<1>, mounted above the reflector B, which has a hole K for the insertion of a torch T. A threeway cock H is provided for the purpose of turning out the flash jet when the main flame has been lighted. The torch is inserted into the lamp through a door C or through a ball trap D of the kind described in Specification No. 970, A.D. 1882.
Patent GB-190519930-A (GB)
Title: Combination Military Hair Brush & Case
Inventor: HOMEWOOD SIDNEY CHARLES
Filed: 1905-10-03
Granted: 1905-11-30
Abstract: 19,930. Homewood, S. C. Oct. 3. Boxes combined with brushes; boxes with revolving parts. -A hair-brush is pivoted at C to a band of wood or metal provided with a lid, so arranged that when the brush is turned inwards it is enclosed in a box, of which its stock is t bottom, and when the brush is turned outwards the ring and lid form the handle. Stops A, B are provided to keep the brush in place.
Patent GB-190522510-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Charging Apparatus of Blast Furnaces
Inventor: SAHLIN AXEL
Filed: 1905-11-03
Granted: 1906-06-07
Abstract: 22,510. Sahlin, A. Nov. 3. Charging. - The intermittent rotation of the distributing-spout of a blast furnace charging-apparatus is controlled by the operation of the bell hopper. The distributing - spout 2, which may be of the form described in Specification No. 5465, A.D. 1905, [Abridgment Class Iron &c.], is driven by a loose gear - wheel 4 on the shaft 5. Spring- controlled pawls 7, carried by a wheel 8 fixed to the shaft, engage e internal ratchet teeth in the spur-wheel 4, and thus the rack 10, by which the shaft 5 is driven, can be moved in one direction without rotating the distributing-spout. The lowering of the bell 15 operates a valve 23, admitting water to the cylinder 13 and driving the rack 10, without affecting the spout. When the bell is closed, the pressure is cut off from the cylinder 13 and the rack is driven back to its original position by water pressure in the cylinder 12, rotating the spout through the required angle.
Patent GB-190522517-A (GB)
Title: Improvements on or relating to Couplings for Railway Vehicles.
Inventor: HILL EDWARD JACOB
Filed: 1905-11-03
Granted: 1906-08-23
Abstract: 22,517. Hill, E. J. Nov. 3. D r a w - g e a r.- The couplings of railway vehicles are tightened by means of floating togglelevers 18, 19, connected to the ends of a divided draw-bar 1, 2. The togglelevers are pivoted at 20, 21 to collars 22 working on right and left handed screw-threads 23, 24 on a transverse shaft 25. The s h a f t is connected by universal joints 27 to rods 26 which are rotated by handles 30. The tightening-means is shown and described as applied to an automatic coupling described in Specification No. 18,920, A.D. 1905, but is applicable to all kinds of couplings.
Patent GB-190525147-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with the Regulation of Alternating Current Electric Motors
Filed: 1905-12-04
Granted: 1906-11-22
Abstract: 25,147. Elektrizitõts Akt.-Ges. vorm. W. Lahmeyer & Co. Dec. 2, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Motors, controlling.-Relates to a method of controlling alternating-current asynchronous motors, and consists in mounting on the rotor shaft a direct-current motor m, which is supplied with current from a rotary converter c, the alternating- current side of which is connected to the secondary of the asynchronous motor a. The speed of the motor a is controlled by regulating the excitation of the direct-current motor m by means of a resistance r, which is controlled either by hand or automatically. The energy taken by the motor a, which may be provided with fly-wheels, may be kept constant, by maintaining the direct current supplied by the rotary converter constant. In place of the rotary converter c, a motor-generator may be used, and the motor a controlled by regulating the excitation of the direct-current generator. This regulation may be effected automatically by providing the field magnets with an additional winding energized by the current from the generator. The motor m may be replaced by two motors connected in opposition to each other, and the regulation effected by adjusting the potential of one of them.
Patent GB-190525967-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Spark Arrester for Locomotive and Portable Engines.
Inventor: BENDLER HERMANN
Filed: 1905-12-13
Granted: 1906-05-17
Abstract: 25,967. Bendler, H. Dec. 24, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Spark - arresters.-A spark-arrester for the chimney tops of locomotives and portable engines consists of a vanedirected box with a front wall or grid of triangular bars 7, an imperforate rear wall 1, and sides consisting of vertical bars. The lower-surfaces of the bars 7 are in one plane, so that the sparks rise to the top of the box, and fall down the wall 1, passing thence through a flexible pipe leading from the aperture 4 at the rear of the chimney inlet 3. A partition 9 may be placed between the apertures 3, 4, as shown by dotted lines, its inclined part being perforated to allow the combustion products to pass through it.
Patent GB-190600593-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with the Hulls of Ships.
Inventor: FARINI GUILLERMO ANTONIO
Filed: 1906-01-09
Granted: 1906-09-27
Abstract: 593. Farini, G. A. Jan. 9. Frames and framing; hulls.-Cylindrical hulls A are strengthened by longitudinal I-beams B. Between the I-beams B are secured arched girders C, spaced about six feet apart. The girders are braced by the braces D united in the centre and supported by a strut 2. In a modification, the girders C are straight.
Patent GB-190601410-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Arc Lamps.
Inventor: FORTUNY MARIANO
Filed: 1906-01-18
Granted: 1906-11-01
Abstract: 1410. Fortuny, M. Jan. 25, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Arc lamps.-An electric motor for feeding or separating the carbons has series and shunt field coils, B', B<1>, Fig. 2, acting differentially, and an armature connected to a point m between the two shunt coils and to a point n of a resistance R in series with the arc, so that it receives a certain current. The electric motor may be separable from the lamp, transmission being effected by means of a rigid, jointed, or flexible shaft, a chain, or other device. The flexible shaft A<1> shown in Fig. 1 is connected through reducing- gear to a right and left handed screw E, F,which actuates the carbon-holders G, H. The screw may be in two parts, connected by a flexible part M or by a joint. The carbons may have equal or unequal movements, or one of them may be fixed. The Specification in its original form as published under the Act of 1901 states that the armature winding may be connected to the terminals of the lamp, including a steadying- resistance. This statement does not appear in the Complete Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-190602083-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method and Apparatus for Treating Textile Fibrous Materials with the Products of the Electrolysis of Water Solutions of Acids, Oxides and Salts.
Inventor: HEY HARRY
Filed: 1906-01-27
Granted: 1906-12-13
Abstract: 2083. Hey, H. Jan. 27 Cells and receptacles have their electrodes &c. specially arranged to increase the efficiency of the current in the treatment of fibrous materials, in cleansing, bleaching, extracting, carbonizing, dyeing, stripping or removing dye, disinfecting, or sterilizing. A grid 2 of suitable material is covered on one or more surfaces with an electrode 3 of lead, zinc, tin, aluminium, carbon, or other suitable conductor, placed above or below it and connected to the current source by a wire 4 insulated by a glass tube 5 or the like. The other electrode 6 may be formed similarly, and is removable from the vessel. The fibrous material is placed between the two grids in a suitable liquid during electrolysis of the liquid. The products evolved at the lower electrode diffuse through the fibrous material. A four-pole switch may be used to reverse the current when necessary. The electrolyte may be a suitable acid, or oxide or salt of a metal, e.g. chromium, vanadium, manganese, titanium, iron, copper, and the like. A steam-heated pipe 8, Fig. 1, may be used to assist the circulation. The liquid may be cooled by a water-pipe coiled round the interior of the vessel, or led straight across, near the surface, and insulated, so as to serve as the top electrode,
Patent GB-190602533-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Generating Acetylene Gas.
Inventor: KINSEY HENRY
Filed: 1906-02-01
Granted: 1907-01-31
Abstract: 2533. Kinsey, H., Challenger, G., and Nott, J. H. Feb. 1. Acetylene.-An apparatus for feeding carbide into a generator comprises an oscillating drum b, with a feed-opening closed by a cover e. When the drum is in the position shown in Fig. 3, a quantity of carbide (regulated by the adjustment of the partition i) passes into an apportioning- chamber d. On oscillation of the drum to the position shown in Fig. 2, the carbide in the chamber d slides along a passage f into a discharge pocket g, wher,ce it is delivered into the shoot h when the drum regains its first position. The oscillation is performed automatically by a rod k attached to the bell a<1> of the gas holder, a slot l in the rod engaging with a pin m on the drum. The pocket g is pivoted on the drum at n, and tilted by its heavy arm o. A pin p, carried on the shoot, closes the pocket when its contents have been discharged, and the arm is then locked by a catch q, which is disengaged when necessary by the pin u on the shoot engaging the projection v, with movement limited by slot t. In the generator, the carbide is distributed by an inverted V-shaped plate w<3> over the plate or grid w, which is secured to a stirrer having blades x operated by a handle y<1>. A plate w<3> is provided for deflecting rising gases from the entrance to the shoot. In a modification, the grid and distributing-plate are supported on a rocking shaft.
Patent GB-190603302-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Speed Indicators.
Inventor: LORING ERNEST JOHNSON
Filed: 1906-02-10
Granted: 1907-02-09
Abstract: 3302. Loring, E. J. Feb. 10. Speed indicators; odometers.-A centrifugal speed indicator has its centrifugal and indicating parts arranged to counterpoise one another. An odometer and a device for retaining the indicating- pointer in any desired position may be provided. Motion is transmitted by an actuating-shaft 12 mounted in a ball bearing 13 in the case provided with locking-nuts 15, 17. The outer end of this shaft is flattened to engagea coupling 18 attached to a flexible shaft, the coupling being supported as shown. The inner erd of the actuating-shaft carries a worm 23 which drives an odometer spipdle 8, the odometer 7 being supported by a bracket outside the casing. Centrifugal weights 25 are pivoted to a cylindrical block 24 on the actuating-shaft, and carry pins 27 engaging slots in an axially-sliding sleeve 28, Fig. 2. This sleeve has a contral pin 29 passing through a slot in the actuating-shaft by which it is rotated. The axial motion of the sleeve 28 is communicated by a sliding cylindrical piece 37 to a nut 34, which is Kept from rotating by a pin and slot and actuates a screwed spindle 38 bearing a pointer. The nut 34, cylindrical piece 37, and sleeve 28 balance the centrifugal weights 25 in all positions, minimizing the effect of shocks. The rotation of the pointer spindle is opposed by a coiled spring 41 connected at one end to a collar on the spindle and at the other to a fixed pillar. The outermost convolution of this spring passes through slots in an open tube 44 on a rotatable bar, by rotation of which the tension of the spring may be adjusted. The pointer may be locked in position when desired by rotation of a knob 50, Fig. 1, the spindle of which is flattened and acts as a cam to press a spring 52 against the collar on the pointer-spindle. In a modified form, for indicating surface speeds and rates of revolution, the casing has a handle and the actuating-spindle is provided with a rubberedged wheel for holding against a moving surface, and the actuating- spindle terminates in a stud for engaging the end of a shaft. Two sets of graduations may be provided on the dial.
Patent GB-190605153-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Regulating Asynchronous Electric Motors.
Filed: 1906-03-02
Granted: 1907-01-10
Abstract: 5153. Elektrizitõts-Akt.-Ges. vorm. W. Lahmeyer & Co. March 18, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Motors, controlling.-Asynchronous alternating- current motors a are regulated by coupling them with alternating-current commutator motors fed with current from the secondary winding of the asynchronous motor, further regulation being effected by shifting the brushes or by including a regulable series transformer in the stator circuit of, or otherwise regulating, the commutator motor.
Patent GB-190607183-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Caps or Covers for Tobacco Pipes.
Filed: 1906-03-24
Granted: 1906-04-26
Abstract: 7183. Shephard, E., and Frankau & Co., A. March 24. Tobacco pipes. - Caps or covers for tobacco pipes for use in strong draughts or winds, as when motoring, driving, or on shipboard, are constructed with a perforated plate A carried by the rim A<1> which takes over the rim of the pipe bowl, and an air chamber B is' formed over the perforated plate, the air chamber having a small slot C cut in it on the side nearer to the smoker when in use. If desired, the cover may be hinged to the pipe bowl or attached to the stem by a chain and ring.
Patent GB-190609998-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Motor Road Vehicles.
Inventor: HANS SCHWYTER
Filed: 1906-04-28
Abstract: 9998. Vogel & Co., F. April 28, 1905, [date applied tor under Patents Act, 1901). Void. [Published under Patents Act, 1901.] Variable speed gearing. - Relates to variablespeed transmission gearing for motor road vehicles of the type in which a crank of adjustable throw oscillates ratchet gearing on the driven axle or on a countershaft geared theretq. Fig. 1 is a plan of the vehicle, Fig. 2 an elevation, and Fig. 3 a detailed view of the driven axle. The motor 58 drives a pair of crank disks 57 connected by rods 56 to oscillating guide frames 43 pivoted in trunnions 44. Sliding blocks 42 are adjusted along these guide frames by means of links 48, levers 49,51, 52, and hand-lever 53. The blocks 42 are connected by rods 41 to drums 30 mounted loosely on the driving-axle. Each of these drums has a steel liner which is adapted, by means of spring - pressed rollers arranged in wedge-shaped slots, to grip one or other of two rings 31, 32, according to the direction of motion of the drum. The rings 31, 32 have teeth 33 on their inner sides, and toothed discs 34 mounted on independent tubular sleeves 13, 15 are adapted to engage one or other of the pairs of rings 31, 32, according as the vehicle is to be propelled forwards or backwards. The sleeves 13, 15 are moved for reversing by a fork 21, connected by a horizontal pivot to a hinged lever 22 which is operated by a slotted lever 27 mounted on a vertical shaft 28 carrying a hand-lever. The sleeve 15 is keyed on the one hand to the driving- shaft carrying the road wheel 3, and on the other band to a tubular shaft 8 carrying the road wheel 5. The driving-axles are mounted on ball bearings in the axle boxes 11. When travelling on a curved path, the outer wheel runs faster than the corresponding drum, which therefore ceases to drive and acts as a free-wheel clutch.
Patent GB-190610760-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Pumps.
Inventor: SCARBOROUGH JOHN THOMAS
Filed: 1906-05-08
Granted: 1907-05-08
Abstract: 10,760. Scarborough, J. T. May 8. Pump valves; pumps with radial cylinders.-In high-speed and other radial-cylinder pumps, each cylinder is fitted with a pair of parallel casings 11, 12 which contain valves, serving respectively for suction and delivery. The valve casings are furnished with detachable tubular slotted liners 19, the circumferential slots in which are covered by elastic ring valves, placed either on the exterior or interior of the slotted casing according as they act as suction or delivery valves. The displacement of the valve rings may be limited by longitudinal rods 23. The four suction-valve casings are connected as indicated in Fig. 1, and commuuicate with a common suction pipe 17, while the deliveryvalve casings are similarly connected and arranged. It is stated in the Specification that it has been already proposed to construct valves consisting of cylinders having external grooves into which rubber rings are sprung to act as valves, also in a pump having a plurality of pump cylinders to provide each of the latter with independent pairs of valves for ingress and egress.
Patent GB-190611880-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, and relating to, Dining Table Games
Inventor: OPPENHEIMER ALBERT
Filed: 1906-05-22
Granted: 1907-03-14
Abstract: 11,880. Oppenheimer, A. May 22. Games played with balls, mallets, pockets, boxes, and spiral and inclined tracks.-A game is played by striking a ball f, Fig. 1, by means of a mallet g, with the object of causing the ball to pass through an opening or door b<2> in a partition b at the entrance of an annular sloping track a<4> formed between the inner and outer sides a<3>, a<2>, of a box a. The track a' may be of oval, spiral, or other shape, and the outer wall a<2> is broken away at d to allow a free space for the operation of the mallet. Around the inner wall a<3> is a series of numbered pockets e, and, in one form of playing the game, the object is to cause a ball to enter these pockets successively. The ends of the track a<4> is closed by a curved partition c. The pockets e are provided with openings of about the same diameter as the ball, but the pockets may be arranged otherwise than as shown. The box may be supported in any suitable manner, and the game played in or out of doors.